| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, rightist, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalist, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
| Main Entry: | die-hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, Tory, conservative, convinced, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, firm, fogyish, immovable, inflexible, intransigent, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed |
| Antonyms: | compromising, conceding, flexible |
| Main Entry: | orthodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, traditional |
| Synonyms: | according to the book, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authoritative, buttoned-down, by the numbers, canonical, conformist, conservative, conventional, correct, customary, devout, die-hard, doctrinal, established, in line, legitimate, official, old-line, pious, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, religious, right, rightful, sanctioned, sound, square, standard, straight, straight arrow, traditionalistic, true, well-established |
| Antonyms: | heterodox, unconventional, unorthodox, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative politically |
| Synonyms: | die-hard, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right wing, traditionalistic |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
| Antonyms: | left |
| Main Entry: | mossbacked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reactionary |
| Synonyms: | counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative |
| Main Entry: | rightist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
| Main Entry: | traditionalist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, rightist, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
| Concept: | Right. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness; summum jus., justice, equity; equitableness; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis., Astraea, Nemesis, Themis., scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique; clear stage, fair field and no favor., morals (duty); law; honor (probity); virtue.
-verbs
be right; stand to reason., see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense (reward); bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem., deserve (be entitled to).
-adjectives
right, good; just, reasonable; fit; equal, equable, equatable; evenhanded, fair., legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful (permitted), (legal) [more]. deserved [more].
-adverbs
rightly; au-bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason., without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons; upon even terms.
-phrases
Dieu et mon droit; "in equal scale weighing delight and dole" [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Cicero]; justititiae soror incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem
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| Antonyms: | wrong |
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